Miscarriage

By. Annie Marhefka

“can you look at it” i asked,
without meaning
to say those words
my head was in my uterus
my womb was in my skull
he saw the panic in my blood
the holes in my eyes
and nodded
he must have thought
i wasn’t sure
that i needed him to verify
but i only needed
to not be the only one to see
and so he looked
and met me there
in the dark

Annie spent the majority of her career working as an HR executive, where she was fascinated with dissecting how people interact and form connections—the same subject matter she most often writes about in her poems and creative nonfiction. She now spends her time writing, being a mama, and doing some HR consulting. She also serves as Executive Director of Yellow Arrow Publishing Co. which supports women-identifying writers in Baltimore. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Coffee + Crumbs, The Phare literary magazine, Capsule Stories, Cauldron Anthology, and The Elpis Pages. You can find her writing on Instagram @anniemarhefka, Twitter @charmcityannie, and at anniemarhefka.com.

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